Zeitschrift Naturforschung

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General Description

Current journals are published by Verlag der Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung as three corpora:

• Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A – Physical Sciences,
• Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B – Chemical Sciences,
• Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C – Biosciences

The backfiles from 1946 to 2001 will be published as Open-Access publications in PubMan. The collection consists of about 180.000 pages.

Requirements to the MPDL

Make digitized back files available on the web as a browsing structure. It would be best if we could follow the browsing approach of the publisher, e.g. http://www.znaturforsch.com/aa/v57a/c57a.htm

The browsing structure is as follows:

Corpus (Journal) > Volume (Year) > Issue > Article

Originally, at the volume level the TOC of the volume is displayed, with article titles, authors and links to the corresponding PDFs: http://www.znaturforsch.com/aa/v57a/c57a.htm

Requirements to scanning agency

Digitize back files and provide descriptive and structural metadata on:

• Journal
  • Title of Journal
  • Publisher
  • ISSN
• Volume
  • Table of Contents
  • Number
  • Year
• Issue
  • Number
  • Year
  • Title
  • Table of contents
  • Conference
• Article
  • Title
  • Creators
  • Source (Issue etc.)
  • Source of Source (Volume etc.)
  • Categories/Keywords:
    • Original Communication
    • Erratum
    • Notes
    • Reports

Feedback from the scanning agency

• Corpus A and C are available completely; in Corpus B 27 Volumes are missing.
• Testscans of the old volumes are completed by 29th of May
• Before 29th of May we will receive preliminary METS sets

Implementation approach

work in progress - implementation approach:

Phase 1

Scope:

• Digitization of backfiles by external provider as PDF/A-1a

• Store digitized material on eSciDoc.

• Update: Entry point for searching/browsing in backfiles is PubMan, the publisher will link to the PubMan collection

Requirements eSciDoc:

• Container Corpus (Journal)
  • Container Volume
    • Container Issue
      • Articles in Issues

• Ingestion of METS metadata

• Download PDF from eSciDoc

Actions:

Organisatorial:

• Sent (commented) XML schema and spec to digitization provider (done end of January 2008)
• We will get METS data; (Andreas sent a request for example datasets to digitization agency (April and May 2008).
• Clarify CC-BY issue and the granting of rights for use of online-publication

eSciDoc related:

1. receive first digitized article pdfs end of may
2. enter testpdfs manually in testcollection on escidoc3
3. document requirements for escidoc ingest tool until june
   1. ingestion format (METS)
   2. number of items (180.000 pages, delivered bundled into articles, as PDF/A-1a)
4. testing ingest tool

Phase 2

Scope:

Enable browsing in back files (Journal(Corpus)-Volume-Issue-Article) on eSciDoc.

Deadline: October 2008

Publication Management

Max Planck Digital Library

Table of Contents

International Standard Serial Number

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

Portable Document Format

Enhanced Scientific Documentation

Extensible Markup Language

Creative Common